{"id":27936,"date":"2015-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2015\/06\/08\/new-fault-detection-technology-to-improve-power-plant-safety\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:38:48","slug":"new-fault-detection-technology-to-improve-power-plant-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2015\/06\/08\/new-fault-detection-technology-to-improve-power-plant-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fault Detection Technology to Improve Power Plant&nbsp;Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10757\" src=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/editorial-image-small-fault-detection-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Fault Detection\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/editorial-image-small-fault-detection-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/editorial-image-small-fault-detection.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Researchers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoit.ca\/\">University of Ontario Institute of Technology<\/a>\u00a0(UOIT) in Oshawa, Ontario, have been working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opg.com\/Pages\/home.aspx\">Ontario Power Generation<\/a>\u00a0(OPG) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucepower.com\/\">Bruce Power<\/a> to develop innovative solutions for nuclear power plant safety.<\/p>\n<p>The process is called Fault Semantic Network. Dr. Hossam A. Gabbar, who is a professor with UOIT\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nuclear.uoit.ca\/\">Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science<\/a>\u00a0(cross-appointed to the university\u2019s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science), says the process will allow nuclear plant operators to truly understand potential fault possibilities and how best \u00a0to prevent them.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gabbar and students have been developing computer models that use real-time utility data and simulate problems, or \u201cfaults,\u201d at nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n<p>This model-based approach can be implemented in parallel with a real plant. It is expected to enhance system performance by improving plant safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will enable operators like OPG and Bruce Power to actually model the fault and model the problems in critical equipment and identify what are the protection barriers or layers and what is the probability of different faults,\u201d Dr. Gabbar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will allow operators to have a better understanding of actual fault propagation scenarios and will link these fault scenarios into safety protection layers to overcome any fault propagation scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gabbar and his students have done a number of case studies that simulate things such as steam generation faults and steam pressure faults.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s nuclear power operations have a proven track record of being among the safest in the world. They are highly monitored, stringently regulated and continuously improved through the daily efforts of qualified professionals who are committed to ensuring public safety.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the industry\u2019s philosophy of continuous improvement, new methods and enhancements to existing methods are being developed in the areas of systems analysis, accident causation, human factors, error reduction and measurement of safety performance.<\/p>\n<p>Using Fault Semantic Network (FSN) for troubleshooting faults in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candu.com\/en\/home\/default.aspx\">CANDU reactors<\/a> will only build on the current knowledge and improve safety in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology\u00a0(UOIT) in Oshawa, Ontario, have been working with Ontario Power Generation\u00a0(OPG) and Bruce Power to develop innovative solutions for nuclear power plant safety. The process is called Fault Semantic Network. Dr. Hossam A. Gabbar, who is a professor with UOIT\u2019s Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science\u00a0(cross-appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-27936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talknuclear"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Fault Detection Technology to Improve Power Plant Safety - Association nucl\u00e9aire canadienne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2015\/06\/08\/new-fault-detection-technology-to-improve-power-plant-safety\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Fault Detection Technology to Improve Power Plant Safety - Association nucl\u00e9aire canadienne\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Researchers at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology\u00a0(UOIT) in Oshawa, Ontario, have been working with Ontario Power Generation\u00a0(OPG) and Bruce Power to develop innovative solutions for nuclear power plant safety. 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